The Bengals' biggest bad boy may be in trouble with the law yet again, and he's also out of a job.

Wide receiver Chris Henry has been charged with misdemeanor assault and criminal damaging in an incident alleged to have happened Monday on Ohio Avenue in Clifton Heights.

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Henry is accused of punching 18-year-old Gregory Meyer in the head and throwing a beer bottle at the victim's car, breaking a window. A complaint was sworn out Wednesday against Henry.

Meyer, who was not seriously hurt, refused to talk to News 5 on his attorney's advice.

Henry and some other Bengals could face criminal charges in an incident early Sunday at BANG nightclub.

Chris Henry, Chris Perry and Domata Peko were escorted out by police when the club closed, and a police officer working security around 1 a.m. said the players had become unruly.

"They're destroying a ceiling in the back room here, and they're all highly intoxicated," the officer said in a recording obtained by News 5. "The bar owner wants them ejected from the bar, so we're going to try and eject them now, but they've been kind of rowdy all night."

Multiple sources told News 5 that Henry was smoking a marijuana cigar inside the club and some of the players hung from a chandelier, ripping it from the ceiling.

Witnesses also said the players sprayed champagne on patrons and lifted up womens skirts before they were escorted out.

Police said no charges have been filed pending the settlement of damages.

No other information about that incident has been released, but the Bengals announced Thursday that Henry had been cut from the team following a string of legal problems, some of who have led to Henry being suspended by the NFL for more than half of last season.

He was just in court last week after being ticketed for driving with expired Kentucky license plates. He paid $149 in fines and court costs, according to the Hamilton County Municipal Court records.

Henry was arrested four times between December 2005 and June 2006, for possession of marijuana in northern Kentucky, carrying a concealed weapon in Florida, drunken driving in Ohio and providing alcohol to minors in northern Kentucky. In that case, he served two days in jail in 2006 after pleading guilty to a charge of letting minors drink alcohol in a hotel room he had rented.

Following his NFL suspension, Henry caught 21 passes for 343 yards and two touchdowns last season.

Henry had nine touchdown catches in 13 games in 2006, when he was suspended by the league for two games and benched for another by coach Marvin Lewis because of misconduct.

But on at least two occasions in the last two years, reports made against him turned out to be unfounded, including one reported assault on a teenager.

Henry's agent, Marvin Frazier, said Henry gave him a different version of events in the Monday night incident but declined to elaborate.

"I was told it didn't happen that way," Frazier said.

Henry appeared Thursday morning in court, where a judge set bond at $51,000 and ordered the New Orleans native to wear an electronic monitoring device and remain in the Cincinnati area if he is bonded out.

Henry posted bond Friday morning and was released from jail, according to court records.

Around the same time Henry faced a judge in this latest incident, Bengals President Mike Brown issued a statement on Bengals.com:

"Chris Henry has forfeited his opportunity to pursue a career with the Bengals. His conduct can no longer be tolerated. The Bengals tried for an extended period of time to support Chris and his potentially bright career. We had hoped to guide him toward an appropriate standard of personal responsibility that this community would support and that would allow him to play in the NFL. We acknowledge those fans who had concerns about Chris; at the same time we tried to help a young man. But those efforts end today, as we move on with what is best for our team."

The 6-foot-4, 200-pound receiver was a third-round draft pick from West Virginia, but a judge had a less favorable assessment of Henry.

You've become kind of a one man crime wave," said Judge Bernie Bouchard. "Now you don't have a job anymore, it looks like, so there's no reason to go to work."